No web design trend has become as wide-spread and as popular recently as the content slider, they are everywhere! And rightly so, not only do they offer a marvelous method for displaying a lot of content in such a minimal space, they are also a great way to highlight your best and most popular articles and content.
When you take the most popular current web trend (the sliders) and mix it with the most popular CMS (WordPress), you just know there is going to be a bunch of free plugins you could easily use. And that is what we focus on in this post, 10 of the best free Content Slider WordPress Plugins. And on top off all that, with the correct image selection and well chosen content they look great as well.
Front Slider WordPress Plugin
Front Slider, with its smooth sliding effect, will allow you to display an unlimited number of posts including images and thumbnails. You can set the speed, duration and whether or not to allow it to auto-rotate. Overall its very easy to customise and can be integrated into most WP themes with ease.
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vSlider – WordPress Image Slider Plugin
vSlider is a jQuery based image slide show script that can display specific images on your WordPress based website with fading or sliding transitions. It makes use of the core WordPress jQuery library, making it very tiny, about 20 kb, and you don’t have to have any knowledge of coding for using it!
It can use images from your posts using custom fields or scanning for images in the post to feature your latest posts from a specific category (for example a featured category), this way with every new post the slider will automatically update it self.
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SlideDeck WordPress Slideshow Plugin WP
SlideDeck is a new way to display rich content on websites and blogs. It delivers a better user experience by removing the information overload and providing a fun, quick and beautiful slider for users to interact with your blog posts and other content.
The SlideDeck WordPress plugin allows you to easily create a content slider widget or slideshow on your WordPress blog without having to write any code. Just create a new slider with the SlideDeck control panel tool and insert the widget into your post via the WYSIWYG editor with the TinyMCE plugin SlideDeck picker.
You can also create a dynamic slider by using the Smart Slider function. Just choose your blog post criteria (recent, popular, featured), select a theme, set your options and viola, you have a dynamically updated slider in seconds! Users can now visually experience your blog posts.
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EasyRotator for WordPress
EasyRotator for WordPress is a free plugin that allows you to easily create sliders in a visual editor. Sliders can display static photos, text and links, or dynamically display recent posts or posts from a certain category or tag. The plugin comes with many attractive, customizable templates. Sliders can be inserted in posts and pages or used as widgets. The editor is simple enough that clients can easily make updates.
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WP Slideshow Gallery
WP Slideshow Gallery is a flexible and easy to configure JavaScript powered slideshow gallery showcase for WordPress.
WP Slideshow Gallery » View the Demo »
Featured Content Gallery Plugin
Completely customizable, the Featured Content Gallery is very easy to integrate. Choose to automate the plugin and simply add a custom field to each post or page you want to display and the gallery will show the image, an auto-generated thumbnail in the upper carousel, and the title and first few lines of page/post text. Advanced options allow inclusion of custom thumbnail images, text, gallery styles and transitions.
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Frontpage-Slideshow for WordPress
There are no limits to how many slides Frontpage-Slideshow will allow, it will automatically start when images are preloaded and will retrieve automaticaly all information to show depending on global parameters. All aspects can be easily customized: sizes, colors, background-images, transitions, durations, parts to show and preload animations.
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Featurific, The Terrific Featured Item Slideshow!
Smooth Slider – Slideshow Of Featured Posts
Smooth Slider is a free, feature rich and easy to customise and style WordPress Plugin that assigns a post as featured posts on a blog and then create a slideshow with them to show at any location on a blog.
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WordPress Content Slide Plugin
Content Slide a WP plugin to create fully customizable jQuery fading image slideshows/sliders anywhere within your WordPress site. Custom options include slideshow size, color, style and more, much more.
WordPress Content Slide Plugin » View the Demo »
Coin Slider 4 WordPress
Coin Slider 4 WP will show your featured posts as an image slider and rotate them using unique effects provided by jQuery’s Coin Slider. Implementation is very easy, after you download and activate this plugin, just paste one line of code in your template and Coin Slider 4 WP is ready to use.
Coin Slider 4 WordPress » View the Demo »
Featured Posts Slideshow WordPress Plugin
This basic, yet smooth, slider plugin can be easily incorporate into your WP theme. In the admin overview you can set the category, the number of posts, and easily customise it.
To view the images in the slideshow, you must create a custom field with the key "thumbnail" and with the direct link to the picture as value.
Featured Posts Slideshow WordPress Plugin » View the Demo »
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